Harcourt Street

Harcourt Street (Irish: Sráid Fhearchair) is a street located in Dublin City, Ireland.

Location

It is a little over 0.6 kilometres (0.37 mi) in length with its northerly start at the south-east corner of St Stephen's Green and terminates in the south at the point where Adelaide road becomes Harcourt Road, near Harcourt Terrace.

The River Stein, an underground river, runs underneath the upper section of the street.^[1]

History

The street was created during a period of street construction and improvement overseen by the Wide Streets Commission in 18th century, extending from St Stephen's Green towards the Circular Road to the south. It was laid out from 1777 by John Hatch.^[2] The street first appears on maps in 1784, and is named after Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt.^[3] By 1791, Hatch had secured enough land to develop the street to its full intended length. In 1843, it had 72 houses.^[4]

No. 6 is a building with many historical connections including as headquarters of Arthur Griffith's Sinn Féin. It was donated by the state to Conradh na Gaeilge in 1966 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. This was to mark the contribution of Conradh na Gaeilge to the nationalist movement, six of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation having been members of the Conradh. The building was the subject of a documentary Uimhir 6.^[6]

Architecture

The street is a largely intact Georgian one. Harcourt Street station, the former railway station and namesake terminus of the Harcourt Street line, is a prominent building on the street.^[1]

As of 2018^[update] the road is overlaid with a

• List of streets and squares in Dublin

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